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it is, if you don't mind the state providing services for you, the good news is most ambulance services are private, so you have the combined benefit of them wanting to pay as little as possible for their ambulances and charge as much as possible for the ride. I'm sure you'll approve of that.

our standard dispatch policy is if they dispatch an ambulance, dispatch us, as well. it used to be that the ambulance dispatcher was to dispatch fire if they felt the extra help, or the potentially quicker response time would be beneficial, but the ambulance dispatchers at the time did not seem to have any intelligent standards for triaging calls - so we'd get called for an elderly patient ho had slid out of their chair to the floor, and left out of the loop for a roofer who fell off a second story roof. we still occasionally have times we hear a medic call their dispatch with "umm... have you dispatched fire for this?" and we still have some degree of dispute over whether people who just need a lift back into their chair should just come to us, instead of the ambulance, because you know - your tax dollars at work, Vs. "and we will need your billing address"

our policy is we only deliver a bill to a "customer" from the fire department for a traffic crash involving people from outside our tax base, or for cases where someone has willfully done something that wastes our resources. - and even then, our policy is to err on the side of generosity. to use an example, we have a safeway store in town - so even though a safeway delivery truck is not technically part of our tax base, we're still not going to bill if it gets into a crash.

back in the dark ages, our neighboring district had their own ambulance, and they didn't charge for any services. however, the ambulance company got their foot in the door with a "we'll service the whole county or nothing at all" bid, and in order to win the bid back in any of the fire districts, they have to get ALL the fire districts to add ambulance services.

the reason why I specify we don't bill civilians is that when the ambulance company runs out of ambulances, they call us to cover for them, and we bill them for that - because their alternative is to pay their own employees to ensure they don't run out. we can understand, sometimes the whole world falls apart and catches you short on resources - but when you consistently have minimum staffing, despite finding yourself chronically coming up short, enabling your bad habits does nobody any good.

which all comes back to the parents demanding miracles and blaming the government for the doctors being unable to deliver.

the doctor whose opinion I look at when I want to know things has chimed in on Charlie's situation. he pointed out some significant things:

1: charlie is one of 16 babies who have been confirmed to have this exact disorder.
2: 15 of those babies have died in infancy.
3: the 16th is currently in a hospital, unable to move on his own, but with no lack of ability to feel the pain of everything that is happening to him.
4: he is currently in the best hospital in the region for taking care of him.
5: any attempt to move him is likely to be fatal.

another member of that forum has said that the American doctor has withdrawn the offer upon seeing what Charlie's ACTUAL condition is, as opposed to the pictures posted in the media along with the stories about how the mean hospital isn't letting the parents have their way.

and also: Charlie is the patient. therefore, it IS about Charlie.

I heard of a new group therapy program called antifa. I hear it is particularly good ate releasing the frustration experienced in dealing with a person who is fixated on the evils of liberal government.

Charlie can't be sent home to die as in the opnion of the doctors at the hospital he would not even survive that trip, he would be dead before he ever reached his parents house.
He would also feel a lot of distress as they tried to transport him, something that they do not wish to do.